The Delta independent., 1887-02-22
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| State Affairs.
A communication was read from the
| Chamber of Commerce inviting Senators to
the reception to be rendered to the Santa
| Fe visitors tomorrow evening. The invi-
tation was accepted.
A communication from the Supreme
Court was received. 1t was the opinion of
that court upon the constitutionality of
some parts of Senator Harkison's bill pro
yiding for the compulsory arbitration of
differences Between employers and en-
ployes; The opinion is that some portions
of the bill are unconstitutional.
In the afternoon the Senate went into
Committee of the Whole.
House Bill No. So, providing for bountics
for, coyotes, wolves. etc; was considered
and recommended for final passage.
Senate Bill No. lSG Experimental FARM
was then taken up. This bill was introduced
By. Senator Wilson, and is an act to estab-
lsh an experimental farm in the San Luis
Park and making an appropriation there
for.
Senator Wilson made long speech in
tnvOr of the bill describing at length some
of the beauties and facilities of San Luis
Park. He offered as an amendment that
the money be taken from the Internal In
prnvempnt fund.
The amendment was adopted, and the
Senator then offered as an amendment that
the sum of money appropriated be $4,000.
Adopted.
The bill was recommended for reference
to the Committee on Revision.
Senate Bill No. lS6. by Senator Campbell,
providing for similar institution, was TAX
en- =. The Committee on Agriculture and
Irrigation had recommended the bill FOR M
definite poStponment. The bill provides
for The location of an experimental farm on
the divide" and calls for the apprOpria-
tion Of $1,000 per year
The bill was recommended for reference
to the Committee on Revision.
HOUsE Senate Bill No. q, 10 establish
the County of Logan. was placed upon It's
third reading and passage, and was passed
by a vote of: Ayes IS, nays 0.
The House then resolved itself into Com
| mittee of the Whole, Mr.. Hoover of Lake
| in the chair, for the consideration of House
| Bin No II, by Mr.. CARRIER to pay the in
| dehtcdneSs of the State Insane Asylum,
| which was the special order of the morn
| ing, but the bill was laid over without pref
udiCc to await the report of the Committee
on Appropriations.
The consideration OF the State Land
Board bill was then resumed.
An amendment to Section 2l, offered by
Mr.. T. q. Stuart that no State or school
land shall be sold except to actual settlers
at public auction to the highest bidder for
cash and no patent shall issue until the eX-
piratiOn of three years from the date of
sale, evoked a warm discussion and the
passage of heated words between MgSSrs.
l'Trntiss and Edwards.
MIR. Prentlss said he favored the amend
ment as itwOuld prevent any contemplated
frauds.
Mr. Edwards denied that there were any
contemplated frauds in the bill and if the
gentleman from Lake said there was lie eX-
pressed his ignorance and did not tell the
truth. Mr. Edwards spoke of the large
tracts Of arid lands held by the State, which
would be utterly worthless unless water
could be brought TO them. The water of
the State was fast being taken up, he said,
and if some measures were not soon taken
by the representatives of the State, the
State within six years would have thou
sands of acres of perfectly worthless
land upon its hands, whereas, by the pro
visions Of the bill, these same lands could
be made valuable.
MI Adams said he was in favor of some
such amendment as offered by Mr.. Stuart,
but he was opposed to the fine line drawn
by the words ''aCtual Settlers He desired
% have 'or those who improve the lands"
inserted.
Mr.. Stuart. Speaker, said the whole mat
ter, with the original section, was that 1t
gave away the lands OF the State. The Gov
ernment of the United States, he said. had
gwen away public lands to railways equal
to the thirteen original States and of more
than enough value to build all the railways
but both political parties, he said. had
agreed that no more lands should be given
away, but should be kept for actual set
tiers. Let the ditch companies construct
their bitches, he urged, if they thought the
sales of the water conveyed by them would
be good investment, but do not give the
lands away 10 tntln.
a motion of Mr.. PrentisS to strike ont
the original section wus adopted by a vote
of % to H. Mr.. Stuart, F. @, having with
drawn his amendment for that purpose.
Mr.. Bowen offered the following in lieu
OF the section stricken out, and the same
was adopted:
1t shall be the duty of the Board Of Land
Commissioners to let contracts for the TAX
ing out of irrigating bitches TO water any
tracts of State lands which in their iudg.
ment should be so watered, and that the
moneys of the internal improvement fund
shall be used for building and sustaining
watered and the charges for water shall be
determined by said board.
Several other amendments Of minor i'm,
portance TO the above were offered and
adopted. and the bill was then referred to
the Printing Committee with instructions
to have the bill reprinted and the amend.
mcnts incorporated. and the bill to be then
placed on third reading.